Location | County | State/Province | Directions,Notes | Age | Formation | Fossils | Comments | Reference | Lat-Long |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
– | – | CO | W-Park Range | Jurassic | Pseudomonotis,Belemnites{4} | CO0241 | |||
– | – | CO | at Millie Gibson Mine – gastropods replaced with native Silver,Galena,Sphalerite | ? | CO0242 | ||||
Deer Trail | – | CO | Paleocene | Fort Union | vertebrates-crocodile-Brachychampsa | CO0239 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | ||
Arboles | Archuleta | CO | 3km N on E side of Piedra River | Paleocene | Animas | vertebrates-Periptychus,Phenacodus | CO0001 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Piedra | Archuleta | CO | 8km N in Piedra River Canyon S3?T35NR4W | Jurassic | Wanakah | Fish-Hulettia,Todiltia | CO0002 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Piedra River | Archuleta | CO | 13 km N of US160 on road along E side of river | crinoids,brachiopods | CO0003 | ||||
Pritchett | Baca | CO | to North | Cretaceous | Graneros Shale | vertebrates-Plesiosaur-Thalassomedon | CO0004 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Bellvue | Boulder | CO | 4 km N sandstone | Cretaceous | Dakota | Avicula,Inoceramus,Ostrea,Fish scales,fish vertebra | CO0005 | ||
Bellvue | Boulder | CO | At exit of Boxelder Creek from Foothills | Ostrea | CO0006 | ||||
Bellvue | Boulder | CO | At mouth of Owl Canyon | Avicula,Inoceramus,Ostrea | CO0007 | ||||
Berthoud | Boulder | CO | W in fold within first hogback in sandy shales | Cretaceous | Avicula,Inoceramus,Ostrea | CO0008 | |||
Berthoud | Boulder | CO | W just outside first hogback in shales | Cretaceous | Benton | Avicula,Inoceramus,Ostrea | CO0009 | ||
Boulder | Boulder | CO | 5-10 km N | Cretaceous | Pierre | shells,petrified wood,Dinosaur Bones,Mosasaurus,Cephalopods | CO0010 | ||
Boulder | Boulder | CO | 5-10 km N below Hygiene Sandstone | Cretaceous | Baculites,Inoceramus,a few vertebrate bones | CO0011 | |||
Boulder | Boulder | CO | 6 km E at 40th parallel | Cretaceous | Fox Hills | invertebrates | CO0012 | ||
Boulder | Boulder | CO | 6 km S just outside foothills at mouth of Bear Canyon | Inoceramus,Baculites | CO0013 | ||||
Boulder | Boulder | CO | In Front range foothills in the area of Horsetooth Reservoir,Spring Canyon Dam and North toward Wyoming in | Cretaceous Lower | Dakota|Skull Creek Shale | Inoceramus,Ostrea,etc | CO0014 | ||
Boulder | Boulder | CO | NE,on Haystack Butte and in fields to W | Cephalopods | CO0015 | ||||
Boulder | Boulder | CO | at University Hospital E in brickyard | cephalopods,wood,fish bones,dinosaur bones,pelecypods{4} | CO0016 | ||||
Boulder | Boulder | CO | on S side of Spring Canyon Dam in Horsetooth reservoir banks | Cretaceous | Dakota | trace fossils,invertebrates | CO0017 | ||
Bulger | Boulder | CO | 1 km S | Avicula,Pholadomya,Baculites,Scaphites{4} | CO0018 | ||||
Bulger | Boulder | CO | 2 km NE in grayish calcareous Sandstone | Halymenites,Crenella,Dentalium {4} | CO0019 | ||||
Cottonwood Spring | Boulder | CO | at top of Cottonwood Draw – 24 km NNE of Orchard | Halymenites,Ostrea,Corbicula,Melania,reptile teeth,many invertebrate species{4} | CO0020 | ||||
Fort Collins | Boulder | CO | N and NW at lower boundary of Hygiene Sandstone | Cretaceous | Hygiene | Avicula,Inoceramus,Ostrea | CO0021 | ||
Fort Collins | Boulder | CO | at Fossil Ridge | Many invertebrates in concretions{4} | CO0022 | ||||
Greasewood Lake | Boulder | CO | 3 km SE of Osgood S and SW of lake | Cretaceous | Fox Hills | cephalopods{4} | CO0023 | ||
Greasewood Lake | Boulder | CO | 3 km SE of Osgood fresh water shells along shoreline | Pleistocene-Holocene | mollusks{4} | CO0024 | No Osgood in area of Greasewood lake | ||
Greeley | Boulder | CO | 2 km E of Fosston on E side of Valley | ? | CO0025 | ||||
Greeley | Boulder | CO | 3 km N of Fosston at abandoned reservoir | ? | CO0026 | ||||
Greeley | Boulder | CO | At Cow Creek | Many species of invertebrates | CO0027 | ||||
Greeley | Boulder | CO | E of Cornish on E side of South Platte Valley | ? | CO0028 | ||||
Greeley | Boulder | CO | In area exposures: | ? | CO0029 | ||||
Little Thompson Canyon | Boulder | CO | 7 km SSE | Cretaceous | Fox Hills | Sphaeriola | CO0030 | ||
Little Thompson Canyon | Boulder | CO | E of mouth | Cretaceous | Pierre Shale | Inoceramus,Baculites | CO0031 | ||
Little Thompson Canyon | Boulder | CO | WSW in Tepee Buttes | Cretaceous | Pierre | Baculites,Inoceramus,Membranipora,Avicula,Ostrea,Lucina,Pelecypods,Gastropods,Scaphites | CO0032 | ||
Little Thompson Canyon | Boulder | CO | at mouth | Cretaceous | Niobrara Limestone | Inoceramus,Ostrea,Halymenites | CO0033 | ||
Longmont | Boulder | CO | 3 km SE | Cretaceous | Pierre | Crenella.{4} | CO0034 | ||
Longmont | Boulder | CO | 400 meters E at Reservoir Hill | Cretaceous | Pierre | Ostrea,Veniella,Lucina,Cardium,Callista,Mactra,Dentalium,Lunatia,Melania,Cylichna,gastropods,reptile teeth.{4} | CO0035 | ||
Longmont | Boulder | CO | 8 km E | Cretaceous | Pierre | Ostrea,Veniella,Lucina,Cardium,Callista,Mactra,Dentalium,Lunatia,Melania,Cylichna,gastropods,reptile teeth.{4} | CO0036 | ||
Longmont | Boulder | CO | S | Cretaceous | Dakota | Inoceramus. Ostrea,fish vertebrae,Plesiosaur teeth.{4} | CO0037 | ||
Marshall | Boulder | CO | SW along coal Creek | Cretaceous | Inoceramus,Baculites,Scaphites,Heteroceras{4} | CO0038 | |||
Osgood P.O. | Boulder | CO | 10 km NE | Corbicula,Melania,Planorbis{4} | CO0039 | ||||
Osgood P.O. | Boulder | CO | 36 km ENE of Greeley | Corbula{4} | CO0040 | ||||
Osgood P.O. | Boulder | CO | 7 km E | Ostrea | CO0041 | ||||
Osgood P.O. | Boulder | CO | 7 km NE in coal outcrop at old stone corral 400 meters down gully | Ostrea,Anomia,Mytilus,Modiolus,Corbicula{4} | CO0042 | ||||
Osgood P.O. | Boulder | CO | 7 km W | abundant Corbicula{4} | CO0043 | ||||
Osgood P.O. | Boulder | CO | NE,in area exposures | Ostrea{4} | CO0044 | ||||
Platteville | Boulder | CO | 8 km NNW at Wildcat Mound in gullies | Cretaceous Upper | Milliken | gastropods,pelecypods,teredo wood,fish vertebrae,reptile teeth{4} | CO0045 | Original said ‘Millikan’ formation | |
Valmont | Boulder | CO | In White Rock Bluff and NE along a fault line | Cretaceous Upper | Milliken | Halymenites,Nucula,Yoldia,Avicula,Ostrea,Dentalium,gastropods,shark teeth,reptile teeth. | CO0046 | ||
Wellington | Boulder | CO | 1 km NE in canal banks | Yoldia,Baculites | CO0047 | ||||
Wellington | Boulder | CO | 10 km NE in gullies | Avicula,Veniella,Dentalium,Mactra | CO0048 | ||||
Wellington | Boulder | CO | 22 km NNW at Round Butte in bluffs at top of talus slope | many invertebrates,fish scales,shark teeth,reptile teeth. | CO0049 | ||||
Wellington | Boulder | CO | 22 km NNW at Round Butte in bluffs in area | Cretaceous | Hygiene sandstone | fossils in concretions | CO0050 | ||
Wellington | Boulder | CO | 22 km NNW at Round Butte in bluffs in area | Mississippian | atop mesa Mississippian fossils in chert float | CO0051 | |||
Wellington | Boulder | CO | 22 km NNW at Round Butte in bluffs in area | Tertiary | atop mesa,Tertiary age petrified wood. — Tertiary | CO0052 | |||
Wellington | Boulder | CO | 5 km E below Millikan Sandstone | Veniella | CO0053 | ||||
Wellington | Boulder | CO | 5 km N and to west in road cuts and stream beds | Cretaceous | Pierre Shale | Inoceramus and others | CO0054 | ||
Wellington | Boulder | CO | 8 to 10 km E | abundant invertebrates and vertebrate teeth | CO0055 | ||||
Monarch Hill | Chaffee | CO | In Limestone | Ordovician | Halysites,Diphyphyllum,Zaphrentis,Heliolites,Stromatopora,Orthoceras | CO0056 | |||
Monarch area | Chaffee | CO | In two horizons one black Limestone and the other shale 1000 meters higher | Devonian | Ouray | Athyris,Camarotoechia,Orthoceras,Orthothetes,Productella,Spirifer,Syringopora,Fenestella,Productus,Spiriferina, | CO0057 | ||
Russell | Chaffee | CO | 1.5 km NE W of old RR grade above Sangre de Christo Creek and along the axis of the syncline | Productus,Aviculopecten,Spirifer,Wood,(Rhombopora),pelecypods | CO0058 | ||||
Sawatch Range | Chaffee | CO | at Pitch Pinnacle http://www.colorado.edu/GeolSci/Resources/WUSTectonics/CzPaleobotany/introduction.html | Oligocene | fossil plants | CO0059 | |||
Stearns Gulch | Chaffee | CO | on black calcareous shale | Productus,Aviculopecten,Spirifer,Wood (Rhombopora),pelecypods | CO0060 | There is a Stearns Gulch in Costilla County | |||
Trout Creek Pass | Chaffee | CO | Ordovician | Harding | Lingula,mollusks,crustacea,conodonts,fish – Dictyorhabdus,Astraspis,Eriptychius | CO0061 | |||
NE Crowley County | Crowley | CO | Tepee Buttes Fossiliferous limestones | Cretaceous | Niobrara | Baculites,Lucina,Scaphites | CO0062 | ||
Cedaredge | Delta | CO | 4.8km NW near and in Green Valley Mine | Cretaceous | Mesaverde | dinosaur bones | CO0063 | ||
Cedaredge | Delta | CO | From roof of Red Mountain Coal Mine | Cretaceous | Mesaverde | dinosaur footprints | CO0064 | ||
Cedaredge | Delta | CO | From roof of Western Star Coal Mine | Cretaceous | Mesaverde | dinosaur footprints | CO0065 | ||
Delta | Delta | CO | area exposures | Cretaceous | fossils | CO0066 | |||
Delta Bridge | Delta | CO | 10.5 km W near top of Dakota Sandstone | Cretaceous | Dakota | Inoceramus,Cephalopods | CO0067 | ||
Delta Bridge | Delta | CO | 21 km N and 3 km W s10t13sr96w | Eocene | Wasatch (WY) | mammal vertebrae,Unio{4} | CO0068 | ||
Delta Bridge | Delta | CO | 5.4 km WNW | Cretaceous | Benton|Niobrara | Scaphites,Prionocyclus,Inoceramus | CO0069 | ||
Delta Bridge | Delta | CO | 6 km E on N side of Wells Gulch | Cretaceous | Dakota | Plant Fragments | CO0070 | ||
Delta Bridge | Delta | CO | 8 km WSW near top of Dakota Sandstone | Cretaceous | Dakota | Plant stem casts | CO0071 | ||
Denver | Denver | CO | 16 km W and 1.2 km S on W slope of Green Mountain above practice fairway. | Cretaceous Upper | Denver | Fossil leaves | CO0072 | ||
Denver | Denver | CO | Along Alameda Parkway Rd W of Denver | dinosaur trackways{7} | CO0073 | ||||
Dinosaur Ridge (Dakota Hogback) | Denver | CO | Dinosaur tracks | CO0074 | |||||
Red Rocks | Denver | CO | E of Morrison Hogback S of Alameda Road in Limestone | Cretaceous Upper | Timpas | plentiful brachiopods | CO0075 | ||
Scotch Creek | Dolores | CO | 115 meters above base of Rico Formation | Rico[?] | Myalina | CO0076 | Unable to identify a ‘Rico’ formation in CO | ||
Castle Rock | Douglas | CO | N near I25 | Paleocene Lower | Fossil plants-trees. 104 species | CO0077 | |||
Bond | Eagle | CO | Road cut on U side of CO131 NW1/4SE1/4S16T2SR83W | Pennsylvanian | Minturn | fish-Ctenacanthus | CO0078 | ||
Colorado River | Eagle | CO | in massive gray Limestone | Devonian | Chaffee | abundant brachiopods – Spirifer,Camarotoechia,Schizophoria,Productella,Athyris | CO0079 | ||
Eagle Bird Gulch | Eagle | CO | at Red Cliff | Cambrian | Brachiopods – Obolidae,Westonia | CO0080 | The original says ‘Westoniaella’,but there are no citations for that and there is a species ‘ella’ listed for genus ‘Westonia’. I’m guessing that the space between genus and species was inadvertently dropped. | ||
Eagle Bird Gulch | Eagle | CO | at Red Cliff | Devonian-Mississippian | Leadville | Spirifer,Schuchertella,Crania,Fenestella,pelecypods,crinoid stems,corals (Zaphrentis),brachiopods (Chonetes) | CO0081 | ||
Eagle Bird Gulch | Eagle | CO | at Red Cliff | Ordovician | Zaphrentis | CO0082 | |||
McCoy Post Office | Eagle | CO | Pennsylvanian,Lower | McCoy | Megafossils,Microfossils-Ostracods,fusulinids,forams | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-3360(193012)4:4%3C332:TFOTMF%3E2.0.CO;2-1 | |||
Ten Mile District | Eagle | CO | Pennsylvanian | Weber | brachiopods,crinoid stems,corals,brachiopods | CO0083 | |||
Stone Reservoir-Camp Rice | El Paso | CO | 1.6km N at Gardner Ranch | Pleistocene (Irvington) | Camp Rice | Turtle-Geochelone | CO0084 | ||
Williams Canyon | El Paso | CO | near Manitou Springs | Cambrian Upper | Sawatch | trilobite tracks | CO0085 | ||
Canon City | Fremont | CO | Jurassic | Morrison | dinosaurs-Allosaurus,Amphicoelias,Brachyrophus,Camarasaurus,Caulodon,Dryosaurus,Dryptosaurus,Epantherias,Hypsirophus,Stegosaurus,Symphyrophus,Tichosteus,;crocodiles-Amphicotylus,Goniopholis;turtles-Glyptops | CO0086 | |||
Canon City | Fremont | CO | Garden Park area on W side of Oil Creek | Ordovician | Fremont | abundant fossils — crinoid stems,corals,porifera,brachiopods,mollusks,crustacea{4} | CO0087 | ||
Canon City | Fremont | CO | Harding’s Quarry | Ordovician | Fremont | abundant fossils — crinoid stems,corals,porifera,brachiopods,mollusks,crustacea,fish plates{4} | CO0088 | ||
Canon City | Fremont | CO | In Priest Canyon | Ordovician Middle | Harding | Lingula,mollusks,crustacea,conodonts,fish – Dictyorhabdus,Astraspis,Eriptychius{4} | CO0089 | ||
Canon City | Fremont | CO | area exposures | Jurassic | Morrison | dinosaur fossils{4} | CO0090 | ||
Canon City | Fremont | CO | area exposures | Ordovician Upper | Ostracoderms{4} | CO0091 | |||
Canyon City | Fremont | CO | In sandstones | Ordovician | Harding | fish plates-Astraspis | CO0092 | ||
Canyon City? | Fremont | CO | On N side of Arkansas River in shales on road above McCormick Brick Yard | Ordovician | Harding | fish plates-Astraspis,Eriptychius | CO0093 | ||
Colorado State Penitentiary | Fremont | CO | US50 9 km W of penitentiary on US50. Roadcut exposing red to pink Ordovician Harding Limestone at West End. | Ordovician | Harding | Agnathan Fish bones — Astraspis,Eriptychius | CO0094 | ||
Garden Park | Fremont | CO | Jurassic | Morrison | Dinosaur bones-Tichosteus | CO0095 | |||
Garden Park | Fremont | CO | 9.8km N on Shelf Road,park at turnouts. Protected site-presumably collecting is prohibited | Cretaceous? | Dinosaur bones,eggs,tracks | CO0096 | http://www.recreation.gov/detail.cfm?ID=1163 | ||
– | Garfield | CO | Eocene | Green River | Bird Feathers,Bird Tracks | CO0105 | |||
Colorado River | Garfield | CO | In massive gray Limestone | Devonian | Chaffee | abundant brachiopods – Spirifer,Camarotoechia,Schizophoria,Productella,Athyris | CO0097 | ||
Douglas Pass | Garfield | CO | At FAA radar site parking lot and nearby locations in ‘Mahogany Ledge’ of Parachute Creek member | Eocene | Green River | abundant Fossil leaves,insects | CO0098 | This site is probably at 39.6383N,108.7616W about 4km N and W of Douglas Pass on the graded road that turns off from Douglas Pass behind the Public Works Garage. | |
Douglass Pass | Garfield | CO | in oil shale | Tertiary | abundant plant and insect fossils | CO0099 | |||
Douglass Pass-Rio Blanco | Garfield | CO | Parachute Creek member | Eocene | Green River | scarce but varied vertebrates. Many insects. | CO0100 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Glenwood Canyon | Garfield | CO | The at either end of the canyon as the layers bow down to the river level. These layers form cliffs and sloping hills. They are the remnants of shallow seas | Cambrian Upper | Dotsero | rich in mussel,snail and squid fossils. | CO0101 | ||
Glenwood Canyon | Garfield | CO | The at either end of the canyon as the layers bow down to the river level. These layers form cliffs and sloping hills. They are the remnants of shallow seas | Devonian | Chaffee | rich in mussel,snail and squid fossils. | CO0102 | ||
Glenwood Canyon | Garfield | CO | The at either end of the canyon as the layers bow down to the river level. These layers form cliffs and sloping hills. They are the remnants of shallow seas | Ordovician Lower | Manitou | rich in mussel,snail and squid fossils. | CO0103 | ||
Parachute | Garfield | CO | beds are exposed high up in cliffs | Eocene | Green River | Plant material | CO0104 | ||
Haystack Mountain | Gilpin | CO | 3 km NNW in fork of Arapaho Creek | Corbula fragments,fish scales,Goniatites{4} | CO0106 | ||||
Kremmling | Grand | CO | 2 km E of Muddy Creek at base of Muddy Butte | Inoceramus,Ostrea{4} | CO0107 | ||||
Kremmling | Grand | CO | In cliff in back of town | Cretaceous | Pierre | Baculites,Inoceramus,cephalopods{4} | CO0108 | ||
Kremmling | Grand | CO | area Limestone exposures | Inoceramus {4} | CO0109 | ||||
Middle Park | Grand | CO | Jurassic | Morrison | dinosaurs-Poekilopleuron | CO0110 | |||
Whiteley Peak | Grand | CO | N in bluff in white Sandstone | Cenozoic | marine algae – Halymenites,Leaves – Platanus | CO0111 | |||
Whiteley Peak | Grand | CO | S and Se in concretions in black shale | Cretaceous | Pierre | Baculites,Avicula,Chaetetes,Serpula,Nucula,Inoceramus,Avicula,Ostrea,Crenella,Baculites,Scaphites,Heteroceras | CO0112 | ||
Whiteley Peak | Grand | CO | along valley of Muddy Creek in concretions in black shale | Cretaceous | Pierre | Baculites,Avicula,Chaetetes,Serpula,Nucula,Inoceramus,Avicula,Ostrea,Crenella,Baculites,Scaphites,Heteroceras | CO0113 | ||
Deadman’s Creek | Gunnison | CO | S14tsr84w in exposures along creek | Ordovician | Fremont Limestone | crinoid stems,chain corals: Receptaculites,shells | CO0115 | ||
Ohio City | Gunnison | CO | at Fossil Ridge | brachiopods and cephalopods | CO0116 | ||||
Apodaca Gulch | Huerfano | CO | May be multiple localities –Apodock Gulch/Apocacha Gulch – Huerfano VII | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-mammals-Loveina,Hapalodectes,Paramys,Viverravus,Eotitanops | CO0117 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Apodacha Gulch | Huerfano | CO | May be multiple localities –Apodock Gulch/Apodaca Gulch – Huerfano VI | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-mammals-Alphadon,Bunophorus,Esthonyx,Hyopsodus,Hyracotherium,Lambdotherium,Microsyops,Oxyaena | CO0118 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Archuleta Draw | Huerfano | CO | Near Gardner-Huerfano IX | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-mammals-Coryphodon,Hyracotherium,Phenacodus;Squamata | CO0119 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Gardner | Huerfano | CO | 3.1-4.6km N and or W at Muddy Divide,Huerfano-I | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-mammals-Paramys,Viverravus;reptiles-crocodiles-Allognathosuchus;Squamata-Saniwa;turtles-Hadrianus? | CO0120 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Gardner | Huerfano | CO | 3.2 km E | Eocene | Huerfano | Squamata-Saniwa | CO0121 | ||
Gardner | Huerfano | CO | 3.2 km NE at Bohannan Canyon | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-Squamata | CO0122 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Gardner | Huerfano | CO | 3.2km N | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-Squamata-Cheilophis,Paraglyptosaurus;Turtles-Echmatemys? | CO0123 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Gardner | Huerfano | CO | 3.2km N at Fossil Creek | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-bird bones;turtles-Hadrianus;;reptiles-crocodiles;Squamata-Paraglyptosaurus,Odaxosaurus,Xestops | CO0124 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Gardner | Huerfano | CO | 4.6km N | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-reptiles-crocodiles | CO0125 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Gardner | Huerfano | CO | 4.6km NE | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-reptiles-crocodiles | CO0126 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Gardner | Huerfano | CO | At C.C.C. Draw | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-Squamata;reptiles-crocodiles | CO0127 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Gardner | Huerfano | CO | At Costillo Pocket–Huerfano VIII | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-turtles-Echmatemys;mammals-Ambloctonus,Diacodexis,Hyracotherium,Knightomys,Lambdotherium,Leptotomus,Microsyops,Paramys;Squamata-Proglyptosaurus,Saniwa | CO0128 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Gardner | Huerfano | CO | At Garcia Canyon | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-Squamata-Paraglyptosaurus;mammals-Hyopsodus,Miacis,Microsyops,Phenacodus,Prolimnocyon;Crocodiles-Allognathosuchus | CO0129 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Gardner | Huerfano | CO | At Williams Creek | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-mammals-Bunophorus,Hyopsodus,Trogosus,Viverravus;Squamata-Xestops | CO0130 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Gardner Butte | Huerfano | CO | 3.1km E | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-mammals-Hyopsodus,Hyracotherium;Lambdotherium;Reithroparamys,Squamata-Cheilophis | CO0131 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Manuel Draw | Huerfano | CO | Huerfano VII | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-mammals-Hyopsodus,Loveina,Viverravus | CO0132 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Oak Creek | Huerfano | CO | 4.6km N | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-reptiles-crocodiles | CO0133 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Promontory Bluff | Huerfano | CO | 11-12km NW of Gardner = Black Mountain | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-Squamata-Paraglyptosaurus;turtles-Hadrianus | CO0134 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Walsenburg | Huerfano | CO | Along CO160 between Walsenburg and Ft Garland in shales | Devonian? | Madera | Brachiopods-Mucrospirifer | CO0135 | ||
Muddy Pass | Jackson | CO | 2 km S of Kremmling-Steamboat road | Cretaceous | Niobrara | Ostrea | CO0136 | ||
Rabbit Ears | Jackson | CO | NE,in coal mine | Eocene | Wasatch (WY)? | fresh water snails – Vivipara. | CO0137 | ||
Steamboat Springs | Jackson | CO | Cretaceous | Mancos Shale | fish scales | CO0138 | |||
– | Jackson,Grand | CO | E on N side of the West Grizzly | Baculites{4} | CO0139 | ||||
Front Range | Jackson,Routt | CO | to E of range in Limestone and shale outcrops | Cretaceous | Benton | Inoceramus,Scaphites,Baculites,Ostrea{4} | CO0114 | ||
Bear Mountain | Jefferson | CO | In Rabbit Ears region in shale overlying igneous sheet | Inoceramus {4} | CO0140 | ||||
Golden | Jefferson | CO | At a local golf course | Cretaceous | Mammal tracks | CO0141 | |||
Morrison | Jefferson | CO | at Soda Lakes | pelecypods in Limestone | CO0142 | ||||
Watertown | Jefferson | CO | At underground clay mines of Robinson Brick and Tile | Cretaceous | Laramie|Benton | brachiopods | CO0143 | ||
Durango | La Plata | CO | In area exposures | Cretaceous | Mancos | Inoceramus,Exiteloceras,gastropods,Baculites. | CO0144 | ||
Durango | La Plata | CO | to E along Florida Road in cuts | Cretaceous | Mancos | Inoceramus,Exiteloceras,gastropods,Baculites. | CO0145 | ||
Ignacio | La Plata | CO | At Mason Pocket Quarry and nearby localities | Paleocene | Animas | vertebrates-Apatemys,Carpodaptes,Chriacus,Compsemys,Dissacus,Ectypodus,Ignacius,Labidolemur,Leptacodon,Marsupicarnivora,Nannodectes,Navajovius,Ogygoptynx,Peradectes,Periptychus,Phenacodus,Phenacolemur,Platymastus,Thryptacodon,Xenacodon,Zanycteris | CO0146 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Ignacio | La Plata | CO | At base of Mesa Mountain on E slope | Paleocene | Animas | vertebrates-Arctocyon,Crocodiles,Ignatiolambda,Nannodectes | CO0147 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Mason Pocket | La Plata | CO | Paleocene | Animas | Mammal Fossils | CO0148 | |||
Spring Canyon Dam | Larimer | CO | at S end of Horsetooth Reservoir | Cretaceous | Inoceramus,Ostrea,etc. | CO0149 | |||
Gardner | Las Animas | CO | 3.2km E | Eocene | Huerfano | vertebrates-Crocodiles-Allognathosuchus | CO0150 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Cedar Creek | Logan | CO | Oligocene | White River | Mammals-Adjidaumo,Aepycamelus,Archaeotherium,Caenopus,Centetodon,Ceratogaulus,Cosoryx,Cynarctus,Daphoenus,Dinictis,Domnina,Ectoconus,Eumys,Geolabis,Heliscomys,Hesperocyon,Hypertragulus,Hyracodon,Ischyromys,Leptictis,Leptomeryx,Megalagus,Merychippus,Merycochoerus,Mesocyon,Mesohippus,Miniochoerus,Miolabis,Mustela,Mylagaulus,Palaeogale,Palaeolagus,Paradjidaumo,Pelycomys,Peratherium,Pliohippus,Poebrotherium,Prosciurus,Protohippus,Protolabis,Protomeryx,Ramoceros,Stibarus,Tomarctus,Ustatochoerus;Squamata-Aciprion,Calamagras,Cremastosaurus,Diacium,Exostinus,Neurodromicus,Peltosaurus,Platyrhachis | CO0151 | |||
Horsetail Creek | Logan | CO | Oligocene | White River | Turtles-Stylemys,Testudo | CO0243 | |||
Lewis Creek | Logan | CO | Oligocene | White River | reptiles,mammals | CO0153 | |||
Lewis Creek | Logan | CO | Oligocene Middle | White River | mammals,reptiles,turtles | CO0154 | |||
Lewis Creek | Logan | CO | W D Mathew 1898 | Oligocene | White River | Lizard-Heloderma;Squamata-Peltosaurus,Rhineura;Turtles-Stylemys | CO0244 | ||
Orellan-Lewis Creek | Logan | CO | Oligocene Middle | White River | Reptile and Mammal specimens. Entelodonts – Archaeotherium,Camelids – Poebrotherium; Hypertragulids – Leptomeryx,Hypertragulus,Hypisodus; Oreodonts – Merycoidodon,Miniochoerus | CO0156 | might be ‘Kewis’ Creek | ||
Pawnee Buttes | Logan | CO | 4.8km NW | Miocene (Barstow) | Pawnee Creek | Turtles-Geochelone | CO0157 | ||
Sterling | Logan | CO | N of Sterling near Nebraska State Line | Miocene (Barstow) | Pawnee Creek | Turtles-Geochelone,Testudo | CO0158 | ||
– | Mesa | CO | Paleocene | mammals: Barylambda | CO0171 | ||||
– | Mesa | CO | 2.4km W of Finley’s Ranch | Paleocene | DeBeque | vertebrates-Phenacodus | CO0172 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
– | Mesa | CO | 9 km SSE of DeBeque Mesa Rd | Paleocene | mammals | CO0173 | |||
Black Ridge | Mesa | CO | Dinosaur bones and gastroliths | CO0159 | |||||
DeBeque | Mesa | CO | 10 km SE on DeBeque-Mesa Rd | Paleocene Upper | DeBeque | mammals | CO0160 | ||
DeBeque | Mesa | CO | 9.6 km S-SE on DeBeque-Mesa road in Atwell Gulch member,in ‘Hell’s Half Acre’ and also in other sites in neighborhood | Paleocene Upper | DeBeque | mammals: Condylarths. | CO0161 | ||
Fruita | Mesa | CO | Jurassic | Morrison | Apatosaurus | CO0162 | |||
Fruita | Mesa | CO | 3 km S | gastroliths,bone{4} | CO0163 | ||||
Fruita | Mesa | CO | In Devil’s Canyon. 2 km S on Colorado National Monument Road, cross River, Turn W 1 km to fork. Left at fork, 2 km to fork left at fork 1 km then 1 km N | Gastropods in Limestone replaced by red carnelian{4} | CO0165 | ||||
Fruita | Mesa | CO | In Devil’s Canyon. 2 km S on Colorado National Monument Road, cross River,Turn W 1 km to fork. Left at fork, 2 km to fork left at fork 1 km area exposures to West | Jurassic | Morrison | ? | CO0164 | Dinosaur bone{4} | |
Grand Junction | Mesa | CO | Jurassic | Morrison | Dinosaur bones;Squamata-Glyptosaurus | CO0166 | |||
Grand Junction | Mesa | CO | Jurassic | Morrison | Dinosaur bones;Squamata-Glyptosaurus | CO0167 | |||
Grand Junction | Mesa | CO | 36 km SW 700 meters above Big Dominguez Canyon on Star Mesa. Dinosaur bones in Morrison Formation clays | Jurassic | Morrison | ? | CO0168 | ||
Grand Junction | Mesa | CO | Dinosaur tracks in Museum of Western Colorado | dinosaur tracks{7} | CO0169 | ||||
Grand Junction | Mesa | CO | area exposures W along Colorado River to Utah Border | Jurassic | Morrison | dinosaur bones | CO0170 | ||
Creede | Mineral | CO | In road cuts along Rio Grande River off of CO149 in volcanic shales | Oligocene | Plants: Pine cones,needles and willow leaves;Insects | CO0245 | |||
Creede | Mineral | CO | In yellowish volcanic ash beds in road cuts along the Rio Grande River | Eocene Upper | Creede | plants pine,willow,insects | CO0175 | ||
Creede | Mineral | CO | in San Juan Mountains in lakebed deposits in caldera http://www.colorado.edu/GeolSci/Resources/WUSTectonics/CzPaleobotany/introduction.html | Oligocene | fossil Plants | CO0176 | |||
Creede | Mineral | CO | in road cuts along Rio Grande River | Eocene-Oligocene | plant fossils,leaves,cones,etc | CO0177 | |||
– | Moffat | CO | In gravels on Green and Yampa rivers | dinosaur bone fragments {4} | CO0185 | ||||
Alheit Pocket Quarry | Moffat | CO | Eocene | Wasatch (WY) | Mammals-Hyopsodus,Leptacodon,Peradectes,Phenacodus,Tetonius | CO0178 | |||
Despair Quarry | Moffat | CO | Eocene | Wasatch (WY) | Mammals-Apheliscus,Ectypodus,Haplomylus,Hyopsodus,Macrocranion,Microsyops,Niptomomys,Phenacolemur,Prototomus,Pseudotetonius | CO0179 | |||
East Alheit Pocket Quarry | Moffat | CO | Eocene | Wasatch (WY) | Crocodiles-Allognathosuchus;Mammals-Anemorhysis,Apatemys,Apheliscus,Arfia,Cantius,Chriacus,Craseops,Diacodexis,Didelphodus,Didymictis,Ectocion,Ectypodus,Haplomylus,Homogalax,Hyopsodus,Hyracotherium,Itibitimys[?],Leptacodon,Macrocranion,Microsyops,Neoliotomus,Niptomomys,Nyctitherium,Paramys,Parectypodus,Parectypodus,Phenacodus,Phenacolemur,Prodiacodon,Prolimnocyon,Prototomus,Scenopagus,Talpavus,Teilhardina,Tetonius,Thryptacodon,Uintacyon,Viverravus,Wyolestes;Squamata;Turtles | CO0180 | [?]The only citation for Itibitimys is the original source | ||
Four Mile | Moffat | CO | Four Mile Fauna | Eocene | Wasatch (WY) | Amphibians;Bird Bones;Reptiles-Crocodiles;Squamata;Turtles | CO0181 | ||
Lily Park | Moffat | CO | S of Yampa River Just S of boundary of White Bear Ranch in Disappointment Draw | Jurassic | Morrison | Dinosaur fragments | CO0182 | ||
South Alheit Pocket | Moffat | CO | Eocene | Wasatch (WY) | Mammals-Cantius,Microsyops | CO0183 | |||
Timberlake Quarry | Moffat | CO | 40.6N,108.1W | Eocene | Wasatch (WY) | Mammals-Apheliscus,Cantius,Haplomylus,Microsyops,Niptomomys,Tetonius | CO0184 | ||
Dolores River | Montrose | CO | Triassic | Chinle | vertebrates-Chinlea | CO0186 | Chinlea appears to be a plant,not a vertebrate. CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | ||
Dolores River | Montrose | CO | Paradox Valley in 120 meters of red bed deposits | Triassic | Chinle | Vertebrates-Paleoniscoid fish; coelacanth fish;Labyrinthodonts-Rutiodon;Lungfish-Ceratodus;Phytosaurs; Plants-Phlebopteris,Osmundacaulis,Itopsdema[?],Neocalamites;Cycads-Zamites;Araucarioxylon,Woodworthia;Petrified wood; Pelecypods;Worms | CO0187 | No citations for ‘Itopsdema’ or anything similar 050525 | |
Dolores River Canyon | Montrose | CO | S36T47NR19W — several localities | Triassic | Chinle Upper | Fish-Chinlea,Cionichthys,Semionotus,Synorichthys,Tanaocrossus,Turseodus | CO0188 | ||
Naturita | Montrose | CO | 160km S of Grand Junction | Cretaceous | Mesaverde | large dinosaur footprints | CO0189 | ||
Paradox Valley | Montrose | CO | Jurassic | Morrison | dinosaur bones-Camarasaurus | CO0190 | |||
Upper Potters Creek | Montrose | CO | Jurassic | Morrison | dinosaur teeth | CO0191 | |||
La Junta | Otero | CO | In area shale exposures | Cretaceous | Carlisle | Ostrea,small shark teeth,thin flatfish scales,ammonites (Prionocyclus),large Inoceramus,Ostrea{4} | CO0192 | ||
La Junta | Otero | CO | area exposures | Jurassic | Morrison | agatized Dinosaur bone fragments{4} | CO0193 | ||
La Junta | Otero | CO | in area shale exposures | Cretaceous | Carlisle | Ostrea,small shark teeth,thin flatfish scales,ammonites (Prionocyclus),large Inoceramus,Ostrea{4} | CO0194 | ||
Alma | Park | CO | 5 km N in Gulch on W side of Platte River | Carboniferous | Crinoid stems{4} | CO0195 | |||
Boreas Pass | Park | CO | In continuous belt through region | Cretaceous | Dakota | pelecypods – Ostrea,Inoceramus,Trigonarca,Cephalopods – Scaphites,Prionocyclus{4} | CO0196 | ||
Buckskin Gulch(Alma District) | Park | CO | In talus at base of slope | Cambrian Upper | Brachiopods – Billingsella{4} | CO0197 | |||
London Mountain | Park | CO | along Ridge W of summit | Carboniferous | Crinoid stems{4} | CO0198 | |||
Quandary Peak | Park | CO | Cambrian Upper | Dikelocephalus | CO0199 | ||||
Lamar | Prowers | CO | 29 km S on CO 287 | Petrified Wood{4} | CO0200 | ||||
Pueblo | Pueblo | CO | S in road cuts adjacent to rest area on I25 in limestones | Cretaceous | Fort Hayes|Greenhorn | Ammonites,Inoceramus | CO0201 | ||
Pueblo | Pueblo | CO | S on I25 | Cretaceous | Greenhorn | ammonites | CO0202 | ||
– | Rio Blanco | CO | Eocene | Green River | Insect fossils | CO0204 | |||
– | Rio Blanco | CO | Paleocene? | Insects:Nematoceran,Pronemobius,Tipula,Eristalis,Coleopteran,Plecia | CO0205 | ||||
Piceance Creek Basin | Rio Blanco | CO | At oil shale mine | Eocene | Green River | fish-Knightia | CO0203 | ||
Elk river | Routt | CO | S4t7Nr85W | Cretaceous | Mancos | Inoceramus,Scaphites,fish scales – Portheus,Ichthyodectes,Baculites,Ostrea | CO0206 | ||
Trull Schoolhouse[?] | Routt | CO | S28 | Cretaceous | Mancos | fossils{4} | CO0207 | USGS search comes up with a Trull Creek (which is not labelled on the 1:25 map) near Lake Windemere at 40.5133N,106.9589W. Other than that,nothing. | |
Ouray | San Juan | CO | 2 km S in Cliffs | Devonian | Ouray | abundant corals,worms,brachiopods,mollusks | CO0208 | ||
Ouray | San Juan | CO | E in cliffs adjacent to small waterfall | Pennsylvanian | Hermosa | Myalina,other fossils | CO0209 | ||
Placerville | San Miguel | CO | 4.8km SE in San Miguel River Valley | Permian | Cutler | vertebrates-Diadectes | CO0210 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
San Miguel | San Miguel | CO | Triassic | Chinle|Dolores | Fish-Cionichthys? | CO0211 | |||
Allison | Summit | CO | 3km N on E side of Piedra River | Paleocene | Animas | vertebrates-Periptychus,Phenacodus | CO0212 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Allison | Summit | CO | 5 km N on W side of Piedra River | Paleocene | Animas | vertebrates-Ectiocion,Phenacodus | CO0213 | CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission | |
Florissant | Teller | CO | Eocene | Fish-Trichophanes | CO0214 | ||||
Florissant | Teller | CO | Area exposures. The majority of the exposure is within the National Monument,but there are some beds exposed on Hwy1 N and S of the monument and on US 20 East and West of the town of Florissant | Oligocene | Florissant | fossil plants,insects | CO0215 | ||
Florissant | Teller | CO | Clare Quarry (Fee) | Tertiary | insects | CO0216 | |||
Florissant | Teller | CO | Clare Quarry–reported open weekends in Summer-$5.00 fee. Number in phone book | Insects | CO0246 | ||||
Florissant | Teller | CO | area lakebed exposures | Oligocene | snakefly,Dobson Flies,robber fly,butterflies,plants,Tsetse flies,horseflies{4} | CO0218 | |||
Florissant | Teller | CO | for fee collecting at Indian Crafts and Construction Co. Probably long since out of business. | ? | CO0219 | ||||
– | Weld | CO | SW1/4S1/2S24R59T10 | Miocene (Barstow) | Pawnee Creek | Mammals-Aphelops,Calippus,Miolabis,Protolabis | CO0237 | ||
Big Spring Quarry | Weld | CO | area exposures | Miocene (Barstow) | Pawnee Creek | mammals-Aepycamelus,Aphelops,Desmatippus,Dromomeryx,Miolabis,Scaphohippus,Tomarctus | CO0220 | ||
Big Springs | Weld | CO | Miocene (Barstow) | Pawnee Creek | turtles-Geochelone | CO0221 | |||
East Valley | Weld | CO | Miocene (Barstow) | Pawnee Creek | mammals-Protolabis,Prosynthetoceras | CO0222 | |||
Fossil Hill | Weld | CO | Section 8 | Miocene (Barstow) | Pawnee Creek | mammals-Aphelops | CO0223 | ||
Fossil Ridge-Greeley | Weld | CO | pelecypod Pinna | ? | CO0224 | ||||
Grover | Weld | CO | Area exposure | Miocene (Barstow) | Pawnee Creek | Turtles-Geochelone | CO0225 | ||
Horse and Mastodon Quarry | Weld | CO | Miocene (Barstow) | Pawnee Creek | Aelurodon,Aepycamelus,Aphelops,Cosoryx,Desmatippus,Dromomeryx,Homocamelus,Hypohippus,Megahippus,Merychippus,Metalabis,Miolabis,Protolabis,Ustatochoerus,Zygolophodon;Turtles-Geochelone | CO0226 | |||
Horsetail Creek | Weld | CO | Oligocene | White River | Turtles-Stylemys,Testudo | CO0227 | Original says NE,but cant identify a Horsetail Creek in NE | ||
Kalouse | Weld | CO | area exposures | dinosaur bones,petrified wood{4} | CO0228 | ||||
Keota Rd | Weld | CO | area exposures in Canyons W of Keota Rd | Miocene (Barstow) | Pawnee Creek | mammals-Aphelops | CO0229 | ||
Pawnee Buttes | Weld | CO | Miocene (Barstow) | Pawnee Creek | mammals-Agriochoerus,Amphicyon,Aphelops,Blastomeryx,Daphoenus,Daphoenus,Eumys,Hesperocyon,Hypisodus,Hyracodon,Megalagus,Merychippus,Merychyus,Miniochoerus,Miomastodon,Moropus,Palaeogale,Palaeolagus,Paradjidaumo,Parahippus,Protohippus,Protolabis,… | CO0230 | |||
Pawnee Buttes | Weld | CO | 4.8km W | Miocene (Barstow) | Pawnee Creek | Turtles-Geochelone | CO0231 | ||
Pawnee Buttes | Weld | CO | East | Oligocene | Brule | mammals-Prosynthetoceras | CO0232 | ||
Pawnee Buttes | Weld | CO | SE at Pawnee Quarry | Miocene (Barstow) | Pawnee Creek | turtles-Geochelone | CO0233 | ||
Pawnee Buttes | Weld | CO | area exposures | Oligocene | Duchesne River? | mammal bones | CO0234 | ||
Quarry Hill | Weld | CO | 3.2km S | Miocene (Barstow) | Pawnee Creek | Turtles-Geochelone | CO0235 | ||
Quarry Hill | Weld | CO | Northeast | Miocene (Barstow) | Pawnee Creek | Turtles-Geochelone | CO0236 | ||
Arickaree | Yuma | CO | near Beecher Island in Arickaree River | Miocene | Miocene mammals – Teleoceras | CO0238 | |||
Ute Trail Head | [?] | CO | [?] | Eocene | Green River | Bird feathers-Diatryma | CO0240 | The Ute Trail appears to be near Colorado Springs — too far SE for Green River? |